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Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR09-238, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) issued an update on the number of deaths associated with the H1N1 flu virus in Canada. PHAC indicated that between December 10 and 15, 18 new deaths were reported across Canada: 3 in B.C., 2 in Alberta, 10 in […]

Dark Reading and ScanSafe reported on a widespread SQL injection attack that hit 132,000 websites as of December 10, injecting malicious iFrames that install a backdoor Trojan. ScanSafe first noticed the attack on November 21 when it was at about 125,000 sites. The attack loads malware from 318x.com and then installs a rootkit-enabled version of […]

CBC News reported that thousands of households in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, were without water on December 8. The city investigated a technical failure at a main water pumping station and found there was a technical glitch at the Windsor Lake water treatment plant, which caused an interruption in the flow. Crews located the […]

On November 27, the Government of Canada introduced in the House of Commons legislation to implement the Canada-U.S. Framework Agreement on Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations, also known as the “Shiprider” program. The Keeping Canadians Safe (Protecting Borders) Act will strengthen cooperative bilateral policing efforts to stem the flow of cross-border criminal activity in […]

On November 27, Microsoft released security data showing that hostile attempts to crack passwords continue to focus on passwords with an average length of eight characters, with “password” and “123456″ being the most common. The data is part of a Microsoft project to monitor attacks that everyday users might encounter on a regular basis. Most […]

Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR09-228, on December 1, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) issued an update on the number of deaths associated with the H1N1 flu virus in Canada. PHAC indicated that between November 26 and December 1, 20 new deaths were reported across Canada: 6 in B.C., 6 […]

On December 2, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV09-049 to bring attention to critical vulnerabilities in PDF distiller of some versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. Research In Motion (RIM) has issued updated software that resolves these new vulnerabilities in affected versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry […]

On December 2, the Government of Alberta announced that it has approved $1.8 million in disaster-recovery funding to help residents, small businesses and municipalities in southcentral Alberta recover from severe rainstorms that occurred last July. Residents were impacted by flooding while municipalities incurred significant emergency operation costs as a result of the storms. The storm […]